Inference Technical Lead in San Francisco

ABOUT BASETEN Baseten powers mission-critical inference for the world's most dynamic AI companies, like Cursor, Notion, OpenEvidence, Abridge, Clay, Gamma, and Writer. By uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless developer tooling, we enable companies operating at the frontier of AI to bring cutting-edge models into production. We're growing quickly and recently raised our $1.5B Series F , led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction Partners, and Spark Capital. Join us and help build the platform engineers turn to ship AI products. REQUIREMENTS: Product Positioning & Technical Narrative Own the positioning and messaging for Baseten’s dedicated inference and platform capabilities, including autoscaling, routing, failover, release safety, observability, and cost/performance capabilities. Translate infrastructure-heavy product work into buyer narratives for ML engineering, platform engineering, security, compliance, procurement, and executive audiences. Partner with Product and Engineering to understand the technical architecture, customer value, roadmap tradeoffs, and proof points behind each capability. Define when a capability should be positioned as a platform differentiator, a dedicated inference requirement, a reliability story, a compliance story, or sales enablement. Build messaging that is technically credible without being overly implementation-focused or generic. Launch Strategy & GTM Execution Build and execute launch plans for major dedicated inference and serving platform capabilities, from early internal enablement through external announcement. Decide what deserves a full launch versus what should ship through docs, sales enablement, customer-specific materials, or targeted enterprise outreach. Create launch assets including messaging briefs, landing pages, blog posts, sales decks, one-pagers, FAQs, demo storylines, competitive talk tracks, and customer-facing proof points. Sequence launches and supporting assets based on custo

ABOUT BASETEN Baseten powers mission-critical inference for the world's most dynamic AI companies, like Cursor, Notion, OpenEvidence, Abridge, Clay, Gamma and Writer. By uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless developer tooling, we enable companies operating at the frontier of AI to bring cutting-edge models into production. We're growing quickly and recently raised our $1.5B Series F , led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction Partners, and Spark Capital. Join us and help build the platform engineers turn to to ship AI products. THE ROLE Forward Deployed Engineers work directly with the largest and fastest-growing AI companies in the world, owning their technical outcomes on Baseten and taking on the hardest problems in serving and improving models at scale. The work spans the model lifecycle: inference, post-training, and the systems that tighten the loop between them. Act as each account's de facto CTO on Baseten, with final accountability for how their workloads are designed, run, and scaled. Take customer objectives from vague to shipped: frame the problem, define the spec and success criteria, build the PoC, and carry it through to production quickly, using the right tools for the problem. Design the evals and benchmarks that isolate where quality or performance falls short, then close the gap yourself, whether that means optimizing inference, improving the model through post-training, or reworking the eval itself. Be the first responder to mission-critical failures including triage, owning the fix directly or route to the owning team and stay accountable until it ships. Build internal systems so that each engagement is faster than the last. This includes tooling and automation for eval and deployment infrastructure, and the recipes and reference implementations that make the product more self-serve. Shape the product itself, channeling what your accounts need into the roadmap and shipping fixes and features into Baseten's codebase yourse

ABOUT BASETEN Baseten powers mission-critical inference for the world's most dynamic AI companies, like Cursor, Notion, OpenEvidence, Abridge, Clay, Gamma and Writer. By uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless developer tooling, we enable companies operating at the frontier of AI to bring cutting-edge models into production. We're growing quickly and recently raised our $1.5B Series F , led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction Partners, and Spark Capital. Join us and help build the platform engineers turn to to ship AI products. About the Role We are seeking a technical, strategic and creative Partnerships Product Marketing Manager to drive the success of our ecosystem partners. In this role, you will work closely with our partnerships, product and engineering teams and with emerging technology companies to bring differentiated joint solutions to market. You will be responsible for shaping partner narratives, creating impactful content, and enabling joint go-to-market programs that amplify our reach. The ideal candidate combines storytelling skills, technical acumen, and the ability to collaborate across partner and internal teams. Key Responsibilities Partner Storytelling & Content Develop compelling technical blog posts, white papers, solution briefs, and customer success stories highlighting the value of joint solutions. Translate technical integrations into clear, differentiated messaging for both technical and business audiences. Enablement & Training Build and deliver enablement programs to arm partner sales teams with the tools, messaging, and collateral they need to position and sell our solutions. Create sales playbooks and battlecards tailored to each partner’s ecosystem. Joint Go-to-Market Campaigns Plan and execute co-marketing campaigns with partners, including webinars, events, solution launches, and demand-generation activities. Manage partner marketing calendars and ensure alignment with key product milestones. Cross-Fu

ABOUT BASETEN Baseten powers mission-critical inference for the world's most dynamic AI companies, like Cursor, Notion, OpenEvidence, Abridge, Clay, Gamma and Writer. By uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless developer tooling, we enable companies operating at the frontier of AI to bring cutting-edge models into production. We're growing quickly and recently raised our $1.5B Series F , led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction Partners, and Spark Capital. Join us and help build the platform engineers turn to to ship AI products. THE ROLE We are looking for an IT Support / Operations Engineer to join Baseten as we continue to scale our IT team. In this role, you will play a critical part in bringing our technical support entirely in-house to provide a seamless, high-touch experience for all Baseten employees. As we continue to scale, you will be the primary point of contact for day-to-day technical issues, allowing you to have a direct impact on our team's productivity and overall office environment. This position is ideal for a hands-on problem solver who enjoys a mix of hardware and software troubleshooting, user lifecycle management, and maintaining the physical IT infrastructure of a modern office. While you will focus heavily on elevating our internal support standards, you will also assist with systems administration and workflow automation as our company evolves. This is a hybrid role based out of our San Francisco or New York office, following our standard policy of three days per week in-person to ensure our physical office and AV systems remain high-performing and reliable. RESPONSIBILITIES Serve as the escalation point for day-to-day technical support, diagnosing and resolving hardware and software issues across our Mac and Windows fleet Manage user lifecycle administration including provisioning, deprovisioning, and access management across all systems and services Own the IT onboarding experience for new employees — from laptop set

ABOUT BASETEN Baseten powers mission-critical inference for the world's most dynamic AI companies, like Cursor, Notion, OpenEvidence, Abridge, Clay, Gamma, and Writer. By uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless developer tooling, we enable companies operating at the frontier of AI to bring cutting-edge models into production. We're growing quickly and recently raised our $1.5B Series F , led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction Partners, and Spark Capital. Join us and help build the platform engineers turn to ship AI products. THE ROLE We're hiring a Product Data Scientist to establish how product decisions at Baseten are made with data. You'll work directly with Product and Engineering, alongside GTM to determine measurement, strategy, experimentation and implementation. This is a foundational, hands-on role. You'll define what success looks like across a technical, usage-based platform and turn ambiguous questions into analyses, forecasts, and experiments that shape product strategy. You'll work from clickstream and product events through inference telemetry and observability data, helping Baseten make faster decisions about reliability, performance, adoption and developer experience. RESPONSIBILITIES Partner directly with Product and Engineering: frame the questions that matter, define success criteria, and turn analysis into roadmap, launch, and prioritization decisions. Define how product success is measured: establish metrics across activation, adoption, retention, expansion, reliability and user experience. Support experimentation and launches: design measurement plans, analyze A/B experiments and controlled rollouts, and translate results into product decisions. Diagnose reliability and scaling behavior: join customer signals with request, replica, deployment, and cluster telemetry to find patterns in release bottlenecks, unhealthy replicas, and models without traffic. Define the enterprise customer journey and measure feature adoption

ABOUT BASETEN Baseten powers mission-critical inference for the world's most dynamic AI companies, like Cursor, Notion, OpenEvidence, Abridge, Clay, Gamma, and Writer. By uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless developer tooling, we enable companies operating at the frontier of AI to bring cutting-edge models into production. We're growing quickly and recently raised our $1.5B Series F , led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction Partners, and Spark Capital. Join us and help build the platform engineers turn to ship AI products. THE ROLE We’re hiring a Data Scientist to help build and scale our internal analytics capabilities. This is a foundational role where you’ll create dashboards, data models and insights to power business and product teams alike. You’ll collect requirements, define key metrics, and deliver insights directly to stakeholders. You'll define what success looks like across a technical, usage-based platform and turn ambiguous questions into analyses, forecasts, and experiments that shape Baseten’s product and strategy. RESPONSIBILITIES Build and maintain production-grade dbt models and dashboards across multiple functions with a focus on accuracy, simplicity and user experience. Define and instrument core metrics around ROI, product adoption, customer lifecycle, capacity, availability, revenue and costs. Ingest and transform raw data using tools like dbt, Airbyte, and BigQuery. Partner with Engineering, Finance, Marketing, and Sales teams to understand goals and translate them into data solutions REQUIREMENTS 5+ years of experience in analytics engineering, data analysis, analytics, data science or a related role Advanced SQL and dbt skills, with a record of building models, tests, semantic layers and lineage in a cloud data warehouse. Prior experience supporting complex cross-functional projects across GTM, Finance and Engineering across various stages of the customer journey. Experience building dashboards and self-serve analy

ABOUT BASETEN Baseten powers mission-critical inference for the world's most dynamic AI companies, like Cursor, Notion, OpenEvidence, Abridge, Clay, Gamma and Writer. By uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless developer tooling, we enable companies operating at the frontier of AI to bring cutting-edge models into production. We're growing quickly and recently raised our $1.5B Series F , led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction Partners, and Spark Capital. Join us and help build the platform engineers turn to to ship AI products. THE ROLE: We are seeking an experienced Product Marketing Manager with a strong background in engaging developer audiences and delivering impactful go-to-market programs for native AI and enterprise companies. This role requires someone who is both technically savvy and strategic, with a proven track record of crafting compelling product narratives and building marketing assets that resonate with technical decision-makers. This role is specifically focused on our Model API product offering at Baseten. If you’re passionate about AI infrastructure, developer engagement, and simplifying complex technologies for real-world adoption, we want to hear from you. RESPONSIBILITIES: Positioning & Messaging: Develop clear and differentiated messaging that articulates the value of Baseten’s inference platform to developers and enterprise customers. Narrative Development: Shape how the market thinks about closed-to-open weights models and what matters most when building inference. Go-to-Market Strategy: Own the launch process for new features and products, collaborating closely with product, engineering, sales, and growth teams. Content Development: Create high-quality marketing assets, including white papers, technical blogs, demos, and customer case studies. Sales Enablement: Build resources and programs that empower our sales teams to effectively communicate Baseten’s capabilities and benefits. Market Insights: Understand the

ABOUT BASETEN Baseten powers mission-critical inference for the world's most dynamic AI companies, like Cursor, Notion, OpenEvidence, Abridge, Clay, Gamma and Writer. By uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless developer tooling, we enable companies operating at the frontier of AI to bring cutting-edge models into production. We're growing quickly and recently raised our $1.5B Series F , led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction Partners, and Spark Capital. Join us and help build the platform engineers turn to to ship AI products. THE ROLE We're looking for a Revenue Accounting Manager to own billing, contract review, and revenue recognition as Baseten scales. This is a hands-on, individual-contributor role for someone who wants full ownership of the revenue cycle at a company where deal structures are getting more complex: usage-based pricing, committed capacity, credits, multi-year enterprise contracts, and new business models coming online. You'll join Lauren, who built Baseten's quote-to-cash function from the ground up, to take on billing, contract review, and revenue recognition as deal volume and complexity grow. Having completed our first year-end audit, we're now focused on tightening contract review processes, close procedures, and reporting rigor to support the scale ahead. You'll partner closely with Lauren, FP&A, Sales, Legal, and Revenue Operations to make sure every deal is structured, billed, and recognized correctly from day one. Baseten is building the infrastructure layer for AI-native companies, and we're scaling quickly - in deal volume, contract complexity, and customer size. If you want real ownership over a growing function on a lean team, this role offers real scope. RESPONSIBILITIES Revenue Recognition and Technical Accounting Own revenue recognition under ASC 606 across all contract types, including usage-based/consumption arrangements, committed capacity deals, credits, multi-year contracts, and new business model

ABOUT BASETEN Baseten powers mission-critical inference for the world's most dynamic AI companies, like Cursor, Notion, OpenEvidence, Abridge, Clay, Gamma and Writer. By uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless developer tooling, we enable companies operating at the frontier of AI to bring cutting-edge models into production. We're growing quickly and recently raised our $1.5B Series F , led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction Partners, and Spark Capital. Join us and help build the platform engineers turn to to ship AI products. THE ROLE As a Forward Deployed Engineer at Baseten, you will partner directly with customers to architect, build, and deploy high-scale production AI applications on Baseten’s platform. You’ll own the journey with customers from initial exploration to production deployment, translating ambiguous business goals into reliable, observable services with clear quality, latency, and cost outcomes. This role is a great fit for entrepreneurial engineers who want a front-row view into how modern companies adopt AI at scale and who enjoy working across product, software development, performance engineering, and customer-facing implementations. To be clear, this is an engineering role with hands-on coding and software development that also includes aspects of product management, technical customer success, and pre-sales solution engineering mixed in. EXAMPLE INITIATIVES Take a look at these blog posts written by members of our Forward Deployed Engineering team: Forward Deployed Engineering on the frontier of AI The fastest, most accurate Whisper transcription Deploy production-ready model servers from Docker images Deploy custom ComfyUI workflows as APIs RESPONSIBILITIES Develop and maintain software systems and product features using one or more general-purpose programming languages in a production-level environment, with a preference for Python due to its relevance in ML projects. Drive customer impact by designing, implementin

ABOUT BASETEN Baseten powers mission-critical inference for the world's most dynamic AI companies, like Cursor, Notion, OpenEvidence, Abridge, Clay, Gamma and Writer. By uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless developer tooling, we enable companies operating at the frontier of AI to bring cutting-edge models into production. We're growing quickly and recently raised our $1.5B Series F , led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction Partners, and Spark Capital. Join us and help build the platform engineers turn to to ship AI products. THE ROLE As an Infrastructure Software Engineer at Baseten, you'll build and maintain components of our ML inference platform that powers production AI applications. You'll contribute to the core infrastructure, enabling developers to deploy, scale, and monitor ML models with high performance. EXAMPLE INITIATIVES You'll get to work on these types of projects as part of our Infrastructure team: Multi-cloud capacity management Inference on B200 GPUs Multi-node inference Fractional H100 GPUs for efficient model serving RESPONSIBILITIES Develop infrastructure components for our ML inference platform using Python and Go Implement and maintain Kubernetes deployments for model serving Contribute to our inference orchestration layer for model deployments Build and enhance monitoring systems for model performance metrics Implement efficient resource management solutions for ML workloads Support infrastructure automation to improve ML deployment workflows Work closely with team members to implement technical solutions Help balance performance optimization with system reliability Participate in technical discussions around infrastructure improvements Learn and apply infrastructure best practices REQUIREMENTS Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or related field Proficient coding abilities in one or more popular programming or scripting languages; Go proficiency is a plus Working knowledge of Kubernetes and containeriza

ABOUT BASETEN Baseten powers mission-critical inference for the world's most dynamic AI companies, like Cursor, Notion, OpenEvidence, Abridge, Clay, Gamma and Writer. By uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless developer tooling, we enable companies operating at the frontier of AI to bring cutting-edge models into production. We're growing quickly and recently raised our $1.5B Series F , led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction Partners, and Spark Capital. Join us and help build the platform engineers turn to to ship AI products. THE ROLE As a Cloud Platform Engineer, you'll envision and build robust systems and processes that ensure our infrastructure is scalable, reliable, and efficient. This can range from automating deployments and monitoring systems to optimizing performance and managing incidents. We all work closely with our users, learning from their past struggles in operationalizing ML, onboarding them onto our platform, and turning our learnings into ideas for improving Baseten. EXAMPLE INITIATIVES You'll get to work on these types of projects as part of our Infrastructure team: Multi-cloud capacity management Inference on B200 GPUs Multi-node inference Fractional H100 GPUs for efficient model serving RESPONSIBILITIES Build and maintain scalable infrastructure to support the deployment and operation of machine learning models. Establish standards and best practices for reliability and performance across the infrastructure. Automate processes when relevant, particularly for managing CI/CD pipelines. Own products and projects end-to-end, functioning as both an engineer and a project manager, with a focus on user empathy, project specification, and end-to-end execution. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand project requirements and translate them into technical solutions. Mentor junior team members and contribute to knowledge sharing within the organization. Navigate ambiguity and exercise good judgment on tradeoffs and

ABOUT BASETEN Baseten powers mission-critical inference for the world's most dynamic AI companies, like Cursor, Notion, OpenEvidence, Abridge, Clay, Gamma and Writer. By uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless developer tooling, we enable companies operating at the frontier of AI to bring cutting-edge models into production. We're growing quickly and recently raised our $1.5B Series F , led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction Partners, and Spark Capital. Join us and help build the platform engineers turn to to ship AI products. ROLE We are seeking an experienced Product Marketing Manager with a strong background in engaging developer audiences and delivering impactful go-to-market programs for native AI and enterprise companies. This role requires someone who is both technically savvy and strategic, with a proven track record of crafting compelling product narratives and building marketing assets that resonate with technical decision-makers. This role is specifically focused on our post-training offerings at Baseten. We’re looking for someone who has experience in and is ready to learn more about all things post-training. If you’re passionate about AI infrastructure, post-training, developer engagement, and simplifying complex technologies for real-world adoption, we want to hear from you. RESPONSIBILITIES Positioning & Messaging: Develop clear and differentiated messaging that articulates the value of Baseten’s inference platform to developers and enterprise customers. Narrative Development: Shape how the market thinks about closed-to-open weights models and post-training ROI. Go-to-Market Strategy: Own the launch process for new features and products, collaborating closely with product, engineering, sales, and growth teams. Content Development: Create high-quality marketing assets, including white papers, technical blogs, demos, and customer case studies. Sales Enablement: Build resources and programs that empower our sales teams to eff

ABOUT BASETEN Baseten powers mission-critical inference for the world's most dynamic AI companies, like Cursor, Notion, OpenEvidence, Abridge, Clay, Gamma and Writer. By uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless developer tooling, we enable companies operating at the frontier of AI to bring cutting-edge models into production. We're growing quickly and recently raised our $1.5B Series F , led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction Partners, and Spark Capital. Join us and help build the platform engineers turn to to ship AI products. THE ROLE We're looking for a Customer Marketing Manager who can own the full customer evidence motion at Baseten: building the systems that capture customer stories, running the co-marketing programs that amplify them, and developing the channels and assets that get those stories in front of the right people. Our customers are ML engineers and AI teams deploying serious workloads — and the stories they tell about what they've built matter. We've earned trust with some of the most demanding technical teams in the industry, and this role exists to turn that trust into evidence. RESPONSIBILITIES Co-Marketing Execution Serve as the DRI for every customer co-marketing launch end to end — managing timelines, coordinating internal and external stakeholders, and driving the process from first outreach to final publication Own the single source of truth for what's in flight across all customer co-marketing activity Coordinate with design, social, and sales to ensure every asset is built, approved, and distributed correctly Customer Evidence & Asset Library Own the customer evidence library: written case studies, video stories, customer quote repository, logo library, and sales snippets ensuring all assets stay current and are tagged and accessible for sales and marketing use Run the monthly operating rhythm: new logo additions from closed-won opportunities, asset updates, and customer health checks Programs & Channels I

ABOUT BASETEN Baseten powers mission-critical inference for the world's most dynamic AI companies, like Cursor, Notion, OpenEvidence, Abridge, Clay, Gamma and Writer. By uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless developer tooling, we enable companies operating at the frontier of AI to bring cutting-edge models into production. We're growing quickly and recently raised our $1.5B Series F , led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction Partners, and Spark Capital. Join us and help build the platform engineers turn to to ship AI products. THE ROLE We’re seeking a GPU Kernel Engineer to join our team at the cutting edge of AI acceleration, where your code directly impacts the performance of state-of-the-art machine learning models. As a GPU Kernel Engineer, you'll craft the foundation that powers modern AI workloads, optimizing every microsecond of computation to enable breakthrough applications. You'll work in a fast-paced, intellectually stimulating environment where technical excellence is paramount and your contributions directly influence production systems serving millions of users across numerous products. This role offers exceptional growth potential for engineers passionate about low-level optimization and high-impact systems work. EXAMPLE INITIATIVES You'll get to work on these types of projects as part of our Model Performance team: Baseten Embeddings Inference: The fastest embeddings solution available The Baseten Inference Stack Driving model performance optimization RESPONSIBILITIES Core Engineering Responsibilities Design and implement high-performance GPU kernels for key ML operations, including matrix multiplications, attention mechanisms, and mixture-of-experts routing Write and optimize code using CUDA, PTX assembly, and architecture-specific techniques Apply advanced performance optimization methods such as memory coalescing, warp-level programming, tensor core acceleration, and compute/memory overlap Performance & Innovation Impl

ABOUT BASETEN Baseten powers mission-critical inference for the world's most dynamic AI companies, like Cursor, Notion, OpenEvidence, Abridge, Clay, Gamma and Writer. By uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless developer tooling, we enable companies operating at the frontier of AI to bring cutting-edge models into production. We're growing quickly and recently raised our $1.5B Series F , led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction Partners, and Spark Capital. Join us and help build the platform engineers turn to to ship AI products. Product at Baseten Product at Baseten is a nascent function. Our company today has a strong engineering culture, is heavily customer-obsessed, and moves fast. We're building the product function now, and you'd be one of the first people who will help define it. You'll work directly with our founders and with some of the best systems and infrastructure engineers in the world, and you'll set the standard for building great AI Infrastructure. PMs at Baseten don't sit above engineers - you earn ownership by being technical, finding the truth in front of customers, building great cross-functional relationships, and shipping great product experiences. The role Getting a model into production still takes real expertise — choosing a serving engine, sizing hardware, tuning it, wiring it into an app. We want a developer to go from "it runs on my laptop" to "it's serving production traffic" in minutes, on their own. You'll own the entire experience a developer touches to deploy and iterate: the CLI and SDKs, the console, onboarding, model discovery, deployment configuration, truss, and the increasingly agent-driven ways developers build. Your job is to make Baseten synonymous with Great DevEx and make it effortless to drive and self-serve deploy models on Baseten for far more developers than it is today. Impact and outcomes you'll drive You will collapse time-to-production — take a developer from first sign-up to a running, maint